- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Moved_the_pymissile_Debian_packaging_to_collab_maint.html">Moved the pymissile Debian packaging to collab-maint</a></div>
- <div class="date">10th January 2013</div>
- <div class="body"><p>As part of my investigation on how to improve the support in Debian
-for hardware dongles, I dug up my old Mark and Spencer USB Rocket
-Launcher and updated the Debian package
-<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/pymissile">pymissile</a> to make
-sure udev will fix the device permissions when it is plugged in. I
-also added a "Modaliases" header to test it in the Debian archive and
-hopefully make the package be proposed by jockey in Ubuntu when a user
-plug in his rocket launcher. In the process I moved the source to a
-git repository under collab-maint, to make it easier for any DD to
-contribute. <a href="http://code.google.com/p/pymissile/">Upstream</a>
-is not very active, but the software still work for me even after five
-years of relative silence. The new git repository is not listed in
-the uploaded package yet, because I want to test the other changes a
-bit more before I upload the new version. If you want to check out
-the new version with a .desktop file included, visit the
-<a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/pymissile.git">gitweb
-view</a> or use "<tt>git clone
-git://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/pymissile.git</tt>".</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Second_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html">Second alpha release of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</a></div>
+ <div class="date">14th May 2013</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>The <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux
+project</a> is making great progress and made its second Wheezy based
+release today. This is the release announcement:</p>
+
+<p><strong>New features for Debian Edu 7.0.0 alpha1 released
+2013-05-14</strong></p>
+
+<p>This is the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux 7.0.0 edu
+alpha1, based on Debian with codename "Wheezy".</p>
+
+<p><strong>About Debian Edu and Skolelinux</strong></p>
+
+<p>Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based
+on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely
+configured school network. Immediatly after installation a school
+server running all services needed for a school network is set up just
+waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable
+Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after
+initial installation of the main server from CD, DVD or USB stick all
+other machines can be installed via the network.</p>
+
+<p>This is the first test release based on Wheezy (which currently is
+not released yet). Basically this is an updated and slightly improved
+version compared to the Squeeze release.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Software updates</strong></p>
+<ul>
+ <li>Install freemind (0.9.0) by default, and stop installing vym by
+ default.</li>
+ <li>Install chromium (26.0.1410.43) by default.</li>
+ <li>Install goplay (0.5-1.1) to make golearn available by default.</li>
+ <li>Updated support for Japanese input methods, now based on
+ ibus-anthy.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p><strong>Other changes</strong></p>
+<ul>
+
+ <li>Switched default file system from ext3 to ext4 for speed and
+ reliability improvements.</li>
+ <li>Got rid of unwanted winbind daemon and PAM setup activated because
+ of <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/706434">706434</a>.</li>
+ <li>Extended and improved the testsuite tests to detect more possible
+ problems.</li>
+ <li>Corrected proxy handling to not set http_proxy to a bogus
+ direct:// URL.</li>
+ <li>Corrected proxy setup for diskless workstations.</li>
+ <li>Corrected PXE setup to use our updated udebs during installation.</li>
+ <li>Made installation handling of low entropy level more robust.</li>
+ <li>Create larger partitions for Roaming workstations and Thin client
+ servers, to make room for all the software installed.</li>
+ <li>Fix bug in Roaming workstation PAM setup, making it impossible to
+ log in (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/706753">706753</a>).</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p><strong>Known issues</strong></p>
+<ul>
+
+ <li>IP resolution for the local hostname give useless IPv6 address
+ (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/705900">705900</a>). Only install
+ libnss-myhostname on roaming workstations until it is fixed.</li>
+ <li>DVD images are not yet ready.</li>
+ <li>No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv)
+ available yet (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/698840">698840</a>).</li>
+ <li>Missing artwork for the KDE desktop (and probably a few others).</li>
+ <li>KDE Debian submenu lacks icons.</li>
+ <li>LXDE menu lacks entry for changing GOsa password
+ (website). Installing gosa-desktop will be an option.</li>
+ <li>Backup configuration via web interface is impossible due to
+ password submission problem
+ (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/700257">700257</a>).</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+<p><strong>Where to get it</strong></p>
+
+<p>To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use</p>
+<ul>
+
+ <li><a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso</a></li>
+ <li>rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso debian-edu~7.0+edu0~a1-CD.iso</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+<p>The MD5SUM of this image is: 685ed76c1aa8e44b12d3fde21faf450b</p>
+
+<p>The SHA1SUM of this image is: 6c874de157024da13e115bab29c068080a11ec4c</p>
+
+<p><strong>How to report bugs</strong></p>
+
+<p><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a></p>
+</div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian__the_Linux_distribution_of_choice_for_LEGO_designers_.html">Debian, the Linux distribution of choice for LEGO designers?</a></div>
+ <div class="date">11th May 2013</div>
+ <div class="body"><P>In January,
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_IRC_channel_for_LEGO_designers_using_Debian.html">I
+announced a</a> new <a href="irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-lego">IRC
+channel #debian-lego</a>, for those of us in the Debian and Linux
+community interested in <a href="http://www.lego.com/">LEGO</a>, the
+marvellous construction system from Denmark. We also created
+<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/LegoDesigners">a wiki page</a> to have
+a place to take notes and write down our plans and hopes. And several
+people showed up to help. I was very happy to see the effect of my
+call. Since the small start, we have a debtags tag
+<a href="http://debtags.debian.net/search/bytag?wl=hardware::hobby:lego">hardware::hobby:lego</a>
+tag for LEGO related packages, and now count 10 packages related to
+LEGO and <a href="http://mindstorms.lego.com/">Mindstorms</a>:</p>
+
+<p><table>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/brickos">brickos</a></td><td>alternative OS for LEGO Mindstorms RCX. Supports development in C/C++</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/leocad">leocad</a></td><td>virtual brick CAD software</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/libnxt">libnxt</a></td><td>utility library for talking to the LEGO Mindstorms NX</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/lnpd">lnpd</a></td><td>daemon for LNP communication with BrickOS</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/nbc">nbc</a></td><td>compiler for LEGO Mindstorms NXT bricks</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/nqc">nqc</a></td><td>Not Quite C compiler for LEGO Mindstorms RCX</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/python-nxt">python-nxt</a></td><td>python driver/interface/wrapper for the Lego Mindstorms NXT robot</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/python-nxt-filer">python-nxt-filer</a></td><td>simple GUI to manage files on a LEGO Mindstorms NXT</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/scratch">scratch</a></td><td>easy to use programming environment for ages 8 and up</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/t2n">t2n</a></td><td>simple command-line tool for Lego NXT</td></tr>
+</table></p>
+
+<p>Some of these are available in Wheezy, and all but one are
+currently available in Jessie/testing. leocad is so far only
+available in experimental.</p>
+
+<p>If you care about LEGO in Debian, please join us on IRC and help
+adding the rest of the great free software tools available on Linux
+for LEGO designers.</p>